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Mike Mercury 05-25-2022 9:01am

How to delete your Facebook account
 
If you’ve finally given up on the world’s most popular social media network, it’s not too complicated to remove yourself from the service. But before you delete all of those pictures, posts, and likes, you should download your personal information from Facebook.

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Your Facebook archives contain just about all of the pertinent information related to your account, including your photos, active sessions, chat history, IP addresses, facial recognition data, and which ads you clicked, just to name a few. That’s a ton of personal information that you should probably maintain access to.

To download your archive using the web:
Click on the down arrow in the upper-right corner.
Go to Settings & Privacy > Settings.
In the left-hand column, click on Your Facebook Information.
In the center, find and click on Download Your Information.
You are now on the Downloads page. You can select which info you want to download (or you can just download all of it). Near the top of the page, under Select file options, there are drop-down lists that let you create a date range (which is required in order to proceed). Download your data in either HTML or JSON, and choose between high, medium, or low media quality.
When you’re ready, go down to the bottom of the page and click on Request a download. You’ll get notified via email when your file is ready, and it will be available for a few days. If you’ve been waiting a while and want to know the status of your download (or want to cancel it), go back to the Downloads page and select the Available files tab.

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After you’ve finished downloading your archive, you can delete your account.

Beware: once you delete your account, it cannot be recovered.

When you are ready to delete your account, go back to the page headed “Your Facebook Information” and click on “Deactivation and Deletion.” Here, you can choose between temporarily deactivating your account or permanently deleting it.

If you want to delete it, select Delete account and then click on Continue to account deletion on that page. Or click this link, which will take you to the same account deletion page.

You’ll get another chance here to download your archive or choose deactivation rather than deletion. You can also move your info to another service such as Google Photos, Google Docs, Dropbox, or Koofr (a photo storage site). Once you click Delete account, your account will be marked for termination and inaccessible to others using Facebook.

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The company notes that it delays termination for a few days after it’s requested. If you log back in during that period, your deletion request will be canceled. So don’t sign on, or you’ll be forced to start the process over again. Certain things, like comments you’ve made on a friend’s post, may still appear even after you delete your account. Facebook also says that copies of certain items like log records will remain in its database, but it notes that those are disassociated with personal identifiers. Other things to be aware of: if you have an Oculus account, that data will also be deleted, as will any Facebook Pages you administer.

If you’re really serious about quitting Facebook, remember that the company owns several other popular services as well, like Instagram and WhatsApp, so you should delete your accounts there, too.



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Steve_R 05-25-2022 9:47am

I've never had a FB account so no worries here. :seasix:

ToolMaker 05-25-2022 10:27am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve_R (Post 1959341)
I've never had a FB account so no worries here. :seasix:

Ditto :seasix:

JetMechZ16 05-25-2022 11:24am

I've only made one post to facebook and that was about 10 years ago.

Aerovette 05-25-2022 11:29am

I'm on it often...unless I'm in FB jail...like I am now.

Iron Chef 05-25-2022 11:50am

I permanently deleted my FB account 6 years ago. I was only on it for just over a year. That's all the time it took to realize what a time-waster it was.

People who don't want to sound like they're on Facebook all the time always say "Ohhh I just use it to stay in touch with family and freinds!!!" Riiiiight.

Funny how all the people who wanted to get and stay in touch with me were able to do so without any help from Zuckerberg's little kingdom.

DAB 05-25-2022 12:51pm

logged off several months ago after i got a time out for quoting a movie that quoted history.

account is still there, but not used nor looked at.

Murray 05-25-2022 1:11pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerovette (Post 1959384)
I'm on it often...unless I'm in FB jail...like I am now.

Who’d a guessed? :hide:

dvarapala 05-25-2022 1:41pm


Giraffe (He/Him) 05-25-2022 2:37pm

I'm on the Book of Face. I follow a few wildlife photography groups and a couple motorcycle groups. I also Admin a Bald Eagle page with 14,000 members.

My personal page however is empty. I deleted everything and dumped 90% of my 'friends'
following my divorce.

Aerovette 05-25-2022 2:46pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Murray (Post 1959422)
Who’d a guessed? :hide:

It's not unlike CFOT so it is an easy guess. Two ****ed up, over-regulated cesspools, that happen to be my main access to people I communicate with.

Like driving through Louisiana to get to Florida. A necessary evil. :Jeff '79:

theandies 05-25-2022 3:24pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve_R (Post 1959341)
I've never had a FB account so no worries here. :seasix:

Me either

snide 05-25-2022 6:27pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerovette (Post 1959459)
It's not unlike CFOT so it is an easy guess. Two ****ed up, over-regulated cesspools, that happen to be my main access to people I communicate with.

Like driving through Louisiana to get to Florida. A necessary evil. :Jeff '79:

I've driven through LousyAnna once. Once was once too many.

markids77 05-25-2022 7:18pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerovette (Post 1959459)
Like driving through Louisiana to get to Florida. A necessary evil. :Jeff '79:

Move to Georgia... we border Florida directly.

Bill 05-25-2022 7:39pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerovette (Post 1959459)
It's not unlike CFOT so it is an easy guess. Two ****ed up, over-regulated cesspools, that happen to be my main access to people I communicate with.

Like driving through Louisiana to get to Florida. A necessary evil.
:Jeff '79:

Dafuq? Where else are ya gonna get decent boudin and gator balls?

zeek 05-25-2022 8:37pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by aerovette (Post 1959384)
I'm on it often...unless I'm in FB jail...like I am now.

:iagree: Me too....I would have lost touch with many friends a long time ago with out FB. I enjoy it even with the liberal censorship bullshit.....:yesnod:

theandies 05-26-2022 11:36am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Giraffe (He/Him) (Post 1959452)
I'm on the Book of Face. I follow a few wildlife photography groups and a couple motorcycle groups. I also Admin a Bald Eagle page with 14,000 members.

My personal page however is empty. I deleted everything and dumped 90% of my 'friends'
following my divorce.

And FB is still making money off of you. Keep feeding the bear and eventually you'll be eaten.

Paypre 01-01-2024 2:52pm

Just wanted to jump in and thank you for the step-by-step guide on deleting a Facebook account – super helpful! Was actually contemplating deleting my Facebook account since I'm vibing more with other platforms. Loving the advantages elsewhere. Currently, I'm diving into TikTok, where I've been actively growing my account. Even decided to use tiktok automatic likes for that extra boost, and wow, the visibility is through the roof! Growing there feels so much easier than on Facebook. Thanks for the guidance on leaving the FB world!

dvarapala 01-01-2024 3:02pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paypre (Post 2194290)
Just wanted to jump in and thank you for the step-by-step guide on deleting a Facebook account – super helpful! Was actually contemplating deleting my Facebook account since I'm vibing more with other platforms. Loving the advantages elsewhere. Currently, I'm diving into TikTok, where I've been actively growing my account. Even decided to use tiktok automatic likes for that extra boost, and wow, the visibility is through the roof! Growing there feels so much easier than on Facebook. Thanks for the guidance on leaving the FB world!

And in turn we thank you for your outstanding SPAM-laden first post. :thumbs:

KenHorse 01-01-2024 3:06pm

Deleted my "real" FB account years ago but maintain an "alias" one so I can use our Corvette Club FB page


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